SEND
Welcome to our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities information page. Hopefully you will find everything that you need. Should you require any additional information or have any questions please see Mr Gambles (Special Educational Needs Coordinator) in the first instance, then Mrs Minhas (Head of School) should you require any further support. You can contact school via Class Dojo or through emailing enquiries@tp.dsat.education
What are SEND?
Children have additional educational needs if they have a learning difficulty that calls for additional educational provision to be made for them. ‘Children have a learning difficulty if they:
Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age.
Have a disability that prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for children of the same age in schools within the area of the local authority.
Are under compulsory school age and fall within the definitions above or would so do if special educational provision was not made for them.’ (Code of Practice September 2014)
There are now four broad areas of SEND, these are:
- Communication and Interaction
- Cognition and Learning
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties
- Sensory and/or Physical Difficulties
Some children may have needs in one or more of these areas.
What changes have been made in line with the new Code of Practice 2014?
The Department for Education have changed the way disabled people and those with special educational needs are supported. They have introduced a number of changes to the Special Educational Needs statementing process which became law in September 2014 through the Children and Families Act.
All staff in our school have been informed of these changes through training and we have made changes to the way in which we identify, monitor and record SEND information. For example, we have moved away from IEPs and we now use 'Support Plans'. These plans contain all the information that we have within school so please ensure that the pupil data held in the office is up to date. Statements will continue to be held in this form up until the next Annual Review. Following the review, we will report the outcomes back to the authority and, in line with their transition process, they will transfer them across onto a 'Education and Health Care Plan'. If your child is currently on a Statement you should have received additional guidance from the authority. If this is not the case, please contact Mrs Barratt.
How do we identify, assess and monitor additional needs?
At Treeton Church of England Primary School we follow a graduated support procedure. This consists of:
Assess
Plan
Do
Review
This is a cycle of provision that we utilise at each stage of the process.
Local offer, Policy and Code of Practice
The Local Offer was first introduced in the Green Paper (March 2011) as a local offer of all services available to support disabled children and children with SEN and their families. This easy to understand information will set out what is normally available in schools to help children with lower-level SEN as well as the options available to support families who need additional help to care for their child.
Please follow this link for more information about the Rotherham Local Offer.
Treeton SEND Offer
Below is the document to show our school's Local Offer:
SEND Code of Practice
The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice provides statutory guidance on the SEND system for children and young people aged 0 to 25. A link to this can be found below:
SEND & Inclusion Policy 2025-2026
Special Educational Needs and Disability Inclusion Policy 2025 2026
SEND & Inclusion Report 2025-2026
SEND Information Report 2025 26